Global Cocktails

Recipes adapted from Charles H. Baker’s, The Gentleman’s Companion: Being An Exotic Drinking Book or, Around the World with Jigger, Beaker and Flask, originally published in 1939. It’s still sold by Derrydale Press, the original publisher, now under the title, Jigger, Beaker, and Glass.)

Colonial Cooler
1.5 oz London dry gin
1.5 oz sweet vermouth
1 tsp. orange curacao
2 dashes Angostura bitters
Baker: “Stir with a goodly lump of ice in a small highball or sour glass, and top off with a squirt of soda, garnished with two sprigs of mint and a stick of ripe pineapple.”